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cond-mat.soft2016★ 293 cited
Chemotaxis and auto-chemotaxis of self-propelling artificial droplet swimmers
Chenyu Jin, Carsten Krüger, Corinna C. Maass
Chemotaxis and auto-chemotaxis play an important role in many essential biological processes. We present a self-propelling artificial swimmer system which exhibits chemotaxis as we…
cond-mat.soft2016★ 138 cited
Curling Liquid Crystal Microswimmers: a cascade of spontaneous symmetry breaking
Carsten Krüger, Gunnar Klös, Christian Bahr +1
We report curling self-propulsion in aqueous emulsions of common mesogenic compounds. Nematic liquid crystal droplets self-propel in a surfactant solution with concentrations above…